<div><P>'Every revolutionary party, every oppressed people, every oppressed working class can claim Jaurès, his memory, his example, and his person, for our own' Leon Trotsky <p></P><p></P><p><p>Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial <I>A Socialist History of the French Revolution</I>, has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts of the French Revolution ever to be published.</P><p></P><p></P><p><p>Mitchell Abidor’s long-overdue translation and abridgement of Jaurès’s original 6-volumes brings this exceptional work to an Anglophone audience for the first time.</p><p></P><p></P><p><p>Written in the midst of his activities as leader of the Socialist Party and editor of its newspaper, <I>L’Humanité</I>, Jaurès intended the book to serve as both a guide and an inspiration to political activity; even now it can serve to do just that. Abidor’s accomplished translation, and Jaurès’s verve, originality and willingness to criticise all players in this great drama make this a truly moving addition to the shelf of great books on the French Revolution.</div>